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Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — An tInbhear [Inver]

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Saint Patrick's Catholic Church — An tInbhear [Inver]
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Detached nine-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, dated 1932; extant 1943. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, "Cavetto" or stepped coping to gables on roll moulded gabled "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" corbel kneelers with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on paired thumbnail beaded consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered stepped buttresses including rendered clasping stepped buttresses to corners having rendered coping. Lancet window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on thumbnail beaded label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Lancet "Trinity Window" to chancel (east) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on thumbnail beaded label stops framing iron mesh panels over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front with three concrete steps, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood moulding over on thumbnail beaded label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Lancet flanking window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on thumbnail beaded label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Lancet "Trinity Window" to gable with concrete sills, and concealed dressings with hood mouldings over on thumbnail beaded label stops framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenges". Pointed-arch opposing door openings (west), concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on thumbnail beaded label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with encaustic tiled floor; square-headed door opening into nave with timber panelled double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with quatrefoil-detailed timber panelled choir gallery (west) below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window" (undated), tiled central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (undated), exposed pointed-arch braced collared timber roof construction on thumbnail beaded corbels with wind braced timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling in carved timber frame on "Cavetto" cornice, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing encaustic tiled cut-veined white marble stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with inlaid altar below stained glass "Trinity Window" (undated). Set in relandscaped grounds including priest's burial plot with cut-limestone Celtic High Cross-style marker, ob. 1937.

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